What to do with the syrup leftover from making candied peel..

On Friday afternoon, as part of my #bakeoffbakealong challenge, I made candied orange peel from scratch. I’ll tell you more about that in my first bake off post (keep an eye out, it’s gonna be great), but this post is answering the question I had to ask myself:

“What the hell am I going to do with this delicious orange syrup?”

It was amazing. This gorgeous gloopy syrupy consistency, kind of bitter but super sweet, like liquid marmalade gold.

It was then that I remembered whisky marmalade was a thing that people went all crazy for at Christmas last year, therefore orange and whisky were presumably a good combo.

I presumed correctly.

Some syrup, some whisky, some tonic – I’ll leave the measurements up to you, we all drink in different ways, right? This is a delicious combo though.

But I didn’t bring you all this way to give you just one leftover syrup idea, what kind of person would I be if I didn’t give you options, huh? You could also..

Use it in a salad dressing instead of honey

Eat it on toast (it’s literally just unset marmalade)

Smear it on pancakes

Swirl it through ice cream

If you happen to be reading this at Christmas, you should totally try adding it to homemade cranberry sauce

And that’s kind of all I can think of..

What about you guys, any leftover syrup ideas? I still have some in the fridge!